one guy (I worked with him in same company for some time) broke to a governmental system in Finland in a TV show, don't remember the year, maybe it was around 1985, anyway he was maybe 16 then - just old enough to be prosecuted properly.
His identity was kept secret in the TV show, but a few days after, the TV station was forced by police to reveal the identity of the guy to get him convicted. The incident got a lot of media coverage, because before that many or most had thought press has the right to protect their "sources" and do not need to reveal details about individuals.
Anyway, maybe in this Lamo case, it is more about
"agitating someone to do a crime", the court might see for example that part of the motivation for breaking in some system could be the fact that he would get press coverage and fame because of it - and NBC would be to blame for agitating.... or something totally different:)
I don't really believe open source changes SW business completely - if you talk about open source and not just the GPL license - as many tend to do. You still can make money using most of the same methods as nowadays, such choose the correct OSI license.
Ofcourse there are cases in which you cannot build a good business based on open source, for good reasons. But that's a completely different topic.
Well, Sir, I was just referring to a musical instrument, which based on minimal empirical research indicated similar kind of effect as the results of the research work partially covered in the article you referred.
> You can fall asleep to Didjeridus? They just give me bad headaches
Uhm. I am able to fall asleep while laying on the floor with two kids jumping over my back, having Tarzan with volume jumping in the TV and yelling, and my wife jumping all over the house because she's trying to speak to me, and I hear nothing. Compare didgeridoo to that, and it's a miracle.:)
I quess australian aboriginals have knewn this for long. Have you ever heard someone really good play a didjeridu (didgeridoo)? Have sleeping problems? Our first son had some, then one day, we put the didjeridu cassette in the player, and not just our boy, but rest of the family felt asleep in a matter of minutes. If you have never heard with it sounds like, here is some samples. If brain waves don't sound like that, I am amazed;))
From the Hudson Soft release:
" The new technology developed by Hudson and JVC uses a special technique to keep the key hidden"
I wonder if this special technology is security by obscurity:)) If the magic can be read by the cd-rom drive, I really don't see what would be so hard in developing a "special technique" for recording the disc while playing back data from the original to create a new record without this silly copy-protection.
I see this as the perfect chance to plug openchallenge and maybe get good comments on how to improve the concept.
Mace Moneta summarized the idea well:
" get those that have the skills needed to tackle a problem together with those that have the problem, and solve it as Open Source. The OpenChallenge web site lets you submit problems; those looking for a project to work on can browse the list of requests for something that they find interesting. "
> In fact, Leo makes organization primary, not either code or documentation.
Well, you make a lot of sense:) . My first comment was intentionally provocative. Especially from design (and architecture) point of view, Leo seems very interesting.
...what so cool in this waring? If they are really looking for networks that want to be found, would not it be easier to just create a service using which you can broadcast your location, description, coverage and other details. I quess I am missing something, but I don't see anything fancy in driving, flying, walking or swimming around in search of some spectrum. Is it just because everyone is still astonished about the fact that you can transfer bytes over air too ?
This is good news. I have really been missing the BBS times! Now that these wireless unlicensed spectrum miracles keep pouring in, we wil soon be in the position to have enough users to drop down the bandwidth to effectively emulate the Hayes Micromodem 100. Excellent!
> the thing that reads the MP3 files (to convert it) would cost 75 cents
> there are a lot of hardware players that will only play MP3 anyway
Well, assume you have 42 billion MP3 decoder chips made before the change of the licensing terms, and you use them to make the bridge product? Can you be sued. I don't know, does someone?
This is just a wild quess, but somehow I think it could be so that the change of licensing terms cannot affect products which were made before the license term change.
If this is the case, isn't it possible to use this as bridge to a new format. Provide a service/product which enables users to convert their MP3s to a new - free - format and forget about MP3. I think I am missing something here, am I?
it's amazing how these scientists still have the balls to go and feed press with research results like this. You know, in certain situations you could find empirical proof to link for example your toilet visit to network congestion.
> While I'm the first to say that monopolies are bad, I like the fact that the OSS community has banded together
> enough to make something of the scale of Mozilla, instead of being tied up in lots of little sub-projects.
I completely agree with this. But I also think we are approaching the point in which people need to intentionally keep their eyes open for other ongoing projects as well. Otherwise, it is possible to just focus too tightly, and loose focus. Even in the case of Gecko, it clearly currently is one of the best (if not the best) of it's kind. Still, some day there might be something else based on completely different design (that cannot be easily implemented within Gecko). I believe such a new radical improvements easily originates from fresh minds that have not yet fixed their thoughts to certain way of thinking. It would be a shame if something like that was left unnoticed because of too fixed focus.:)
It is great, that Mozilla progresses and that Slashdot supports the work by directing traffic to their site. But I really hope that/. could give other and new browser projects coverage as well. Many of them have innovative ideas, and potential, and probably would not mind a few more volunteer developers. Slashdot is in great position to give these too the needed momentum. Why don't you release an article about one of them today already?
" It's very specifically related to dealing with bouncing mail and having a registry set up for when the bounce occurs stuff can happen to get the mail to the right place. "
Ehmm. Great invention. Sorry to spoil the fun but..:
"...MMDF and sendmail both support aliasing, customized mailers, message batching, automatic forwarding to gateways, queueing, and retransmission."
"All the software will be free and hopefully, open-source. Only the registration will be charged, and given the scale that we anticipate, we're looking at less than US$20 per year, with substantial discounts for students, etc."
Now we have someone to continue Mother Teresa's work!
We kept saying, `Sell us wholesale access to your network and we will have the direct relationship with the customer,' " Ms. Hook recalled in an interview last week. "It became clear that that was really unknown in the cable industry, and we've realized that moving more toward an HBO model for carriage makes a lot of sense."
Slashdot Mirror
His identity was kept secret in the TV show, but a few days after, the TV station was forced by police to reveal the identity of the guy to get him convicted. The incident got a lot of media coverage, because before that many or most had thought press has the right to protect their "sources" and do not need to reveal details about individuals.
Anyway, maybe in this Lamo case, it is more about "agitating someone to do a crime", the court might see for example that part of the motivation for breaking in some system could be the fact that he would get press coverage and fame because of it - and NBC would be to blame for agitating.... or something totally different :)
Ofcourse there are cases in which you cannot build a good business based on open source, for good reasons. But that's a completely different topic.
Well, Sir, I was just referring to a musical instrument, which based on minimal empirical research indicated similar kind of effect as the results of the research work partially covered in the article you referred.
Uhm. I am able to fall asleep while laying on the floor with two kids jumping over my back, having Tarzan with volume jumping in the TV and yelling, and my wife jumping all over the house because she's trying to speak to me, and I hear nothing. Compare didgeridoo to that, and it's a miracle. :)
Gee! Someone should make his thesis work about my typos and bad verb conjugation.
I quess australian aboriginals have knewn this for long. Have you ever heard someone really good play a didjeridu (didgeridoo)? Have sleeping problems? Our first son had some, then one day, we put the didjeridu cassette in the player, and not just our boy, but rest of the family felt asleep in a matter of minutes. If you have never heard with it sounds like, here is some samples. If brain waves don't sound like that, I am amazed ;))
Apparently, this is the only documented case in which a meteorite has hit someone. Now, that must hurt!
I wonder if this special technology is security by obscurity :)) If the magic can be read by the cd-rom drive, I really don't see what would be so hard in developing a "special technique" for recording the disc while playing back data from the original to create a new record without this silly copy-protection.
To me, that does not sound like a dream home, it sounds more like Ubiquitous version of the dream house featured in the movie Cube.
Mace Moneta summarized the idea well:
" get those that have the skills needed to tackle a problem together with those that have the problem, and solve it as Open Source. The OpenChallenge web site lets you submit problems; those looking for a project to work on can browse the list of requests for something that they find interesting. "
Well, you make a lot of sense :) . My first comment was intentionally provocative. Especially from design (and architecture) point of view, Leo seems very interesting.
...what so cool in this waring? If they are really looking for networks that want to be found, would not it be easier to just create a service using which you can broadcast your location, description, coverage and other details. I quess I am missing something, but I don't see anything fancy in driving, flying, walking or swimming around in search of some spectrum. Is it just because everyone is still astonished about the fact that you can transfer bytes over air too ?
literate, without literate programming :)
This is good news. I have really been missing the BBS times! Now that these wireless unlicensed spectrum miracles keep pouring in, we wil soon be in the position to have enough users to drop down the bandwidth to effectively emulate the Hayes Micromodem 100. Excellent!
> there are a lot of hardware players that will only play MP3 anyway
Well, assume you have 42 billion MP3 decoder chips made before the change of the licensing terms, and you use them to make the bridge product? Can you be sued. I don't know, does someone?
If this is the case, isn't it possible to use this as bridge to a new format. Provide a service/product which enables users to convert their MP3s to a new - free - format and forget about MP3. I think I am missing something here, am I?
it's amazing how these scientists still have the balls to go and feed press with research results like this. You know, in certain situations you could find empirical proof to link for example your toilet visit to network congestion.
So, do you think that's a great innovation? Bullshit.
> enough to make something of the scale of Mozilla, instead of being tied up in lots of little sub-projects.
I completely agree with this. But I also think we are approaching the point in which people need to intentionally keep their eyes open for other ongoing projects as well. Otherwise, it is possible to just focus too tightly, and loose focus. Even in the case of Gecko, it clearly currently is one of the best (if not the best) of it's kind. Still, some day there might be something else based on completely different design (that cannot be easily implemented within Gecko). I believe such a new radical improvements easily originates from fresh minds that have not yet fixed their thoughts to certain way of thinking. It would be a shame if something like that was left unnoticed because of too fixed focus. :)
It is great, that Mozilla progresses and that Slashdot supports the work by directing traffic to their site. But I really hope that /. could give other and new browser projects coverage as well. Many of them have innovative ideas, and potential, and probably would not mind a few more volunteer developers. Slashdot is in great position to give these too the needed momentum. Why don't you release an article about one of them today already?
Copy the business concept from here.
Do you mean, like sendmail.cf ? :)))
"...MMDF and sendmail both support aliasing, customized mailers, message batching, automatic forwarding to gateways, queueing, and retransmission."
The orginal paper:
SENDMAIL -- An Internetwork Mail Router, Eric Allman
Now we have someone to continue Mother Teresa's work!
And there we had them, Hooked :)